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Sinopse
This is a podcast about education and my attempt to use classroom 2.0 tools in my classroom. I examine topics that often go unmentioned in education classes, professional development, and journals. In this crazy world of NCLB and amazing technologies entering the classroom, this podcast is a reminder that we need to first give children our love, not our thoughts. If you are focused on getting your kids to get higher test scores and learn facts, this is not the podcast for you. If you are focused on building relationships with your students and letting them develop the skills needed to survive in the 21st Century, then take a listen.My Blog and wiki http://www.blogush.edublogs.orghttp://www.edhead.wikispaces.comhttp://www.morecowbell.wikispaces.comClass wiki and Blogwww.collaborationnation.wikispaces.comwww.pbogush.edublogs.orgThe following story captures the spirit of my podcast. I awoke early, as I often did, just before sunrise to walk by the ocean's edge and greet the new day. As I moved through the misty dawn, I focused on a faint, far away motion. I saw a youth, bending and reaching and flailing arms, dancing on the beach, no doubt in celebration of the perfect day soon to begin. As I approached, I sadly realized that the youth was not dancing to the bay, but rather bending to sift through the debris left by the night's tide, stopping now and then to pick up a starfish and then standing, to heave it back into the sea. I asked the youth the purpose of the effort. "The tide has washed the starfish onto the beach and they cannot return to the sea by themselves," the youth replied. "When the sun rises, they will die, unless I throw them back to the sea." As the youth explained, I surveyed the vast expanse of beach, stretching in both directions beyond my sight. Starfish littered the shore in numbers beyond calculation. The hopelessness of the youth's plan became clear to me and I countered, "But there are more starfish on this beach than you can ever save before the sun is up. Surely you cannot expect to make a difference." The youth paused briefly to consider my words, bent to pick up a starfish and threw it as far as possible. Turning to me he simply said, "I made a difference to that one." I left the boy and went home, deep in thought of what the boy had said. I returned to the beach and spent the rest of the day helping the boy throw starfish in to the sea....based on the story by Loren Eisley_uacct = "UA-2329378-1";urchinTracker();
Episódios
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![What is one thing youd change?]()
What is one thing you'd change?
19/06/2007 Duração: 17minKevin Honeycutt posed a classic question on his podcast "Driving Questions." He asked, "What is one thing you would change about schools?" Here is my response...it might sound crazy, but it would work.
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![Students as Teachers...Teachers as students]()
Students as Teachers...Teachers as students
14/06/2007 Duração: 20minWhat can you learn from your students? Watch them carefully and they will tell you what they need and when they need it. Let them teach, and they will show you how they learn and what will engage them. This podcast was sparked by watching a group of students take over class for a day, and then having a group of "career day" speakers take over class the following day. If we open our eyes, our hearts, and relinquish our "power" in the classroom to our kids, we might learn some very valuable lessons about how we should be teaching. We should all treat our students as teachers.
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Grade this Podcast
08/06/2007 Duração: 26minGrade this podcast -- go ahead...I double dog dare you. A podcast about grades and assessments. Really, grade this podcast. But I want you to make a decision to grade it before you listen to it...not after. Notice what changes when you try to listen to this knowing you have to grade it...the same thing that happens when you try to learn something you know you will be graded on. I am serious, go ahead..grade this podcast. If you are a teacher you grade 1000's of assignments. This should be an easy task. Please don't tell me you don't have a rubric so it would be unfair, or that you don't know me. Go ahead, grade this podcast.
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![Connecting With Students]()
Connecting With Students
05/06/2007 Duração: 17minWow! This podcasting thing is much harder than I thought. It's funny how I have all these thoughts flying around in my head but the second I try to get them to come out of my mouth they become garbled and unfocused. I guess I have never really had the opportunity to vocalize or write down my "educational" thoughts and now that I try...yikes. My podcasts end up being more like a dysfunctional therapy session rather than a well thought out podcast on a focused topic. I keep thinking at the end of each one that I should start over and throw it out. But I think I am going to keep going and maybe there is a lesson in here somewhere -- especially for my kids next year when we start the class podcasts. So today I leave you with a short podcast on connecting with kids. I think if we all started thinking about how we can better connect with our kids and then talk about curriculum, technology, school design, etc...the world would be simply a much better place : ) Hey...if you read this far, leave me a commen
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![Trust Your Students]()
Trust Your Students
01/06/2007 Duração: 21minI trust my kids. Every opinion they give is true and honest. Why don't we use the opinions of our children to improve our teaching? Are we afraid of what we might hear if we ask and listen? A podcast inspired by K. ...opps....after listening to it I realize that I must have started pedaling faster and the recorder started to pick up a lot of wind noise half way through -- sorry! I'll drive slower next time : )
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![You have to start somewhere...]()
You have to start somewhere...
31/05/2007 Duração: 13minMy first podcast. Just an experiment to test the recorder -- next time I will actually try to have a focus : )
